Separate pasts -- Expectations and promises -- Early efforts in the United States, 1868-1871 -- Early efforts in Canada, 1876-1878 -- Negotiating the relationship: the Treaty of 1868, 1871-1875 -- Misunderstanding in practice: Treaty Six,1879-1884 -- The Treaty of 1868 and the peace policy, 1875-1876 -- Treaty Six and the Northwest Rebellion, 1885 -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: 1868 Treaty with the Sioux -- Appendix B: Treaties at Forts Carlton and Pitt
Summary
Broken Treaties is a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States-Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree (1876). Jill St. Germain argues that the "broken treaties" label imposed by nineteenth-century observers and perpetuated in the historical literature has obscured the implementation experience of both Native and non-Native participants and distorted our understanding of the relationships between them. As a result, historians have ignored the role of the Treaty of 1868 as the i
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-430) and index
